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Well there could be two that apply! "Killing me softly" and "Ready or Not, here I come you can't hide" 😀

I love it when old posts come up and I simply can't remember writing them, but my name is on it, so it must have been me..... No, no tricks. Haven't done that in years. It was for simply LVLibs, no classes, no hierarchies. LLBs don't play well with classes (no sub-folders, no ability to store multiple VIs with the same name). I suppose the PPL is the proper replacement for this now, although that's not source code....

As a contributor to other packages I would like acknowledgement for those contributions. This was from our user group and the general idea was that package owners can build a self-brand of sorts by being attached to popular packages but if someone makes significant contributions to many successful packages there should be some sort of recognition. I think the OpenG libraries are a good example where there may only be one owner but I'm sure there were some large contributions from several people that led to the overall success of the project. I don't know the best way to do this but the simplest might be to have a list of projects that you are a major or minor contributor to. You might be regarded as a minor contributor for any packages which you submit any meaningful code (some bug fix or new feature) while being a major contributor might be an acknowledgement from the package owner. In my mind a package may have a field for major contributors and the package owner could curate that list and link to other users.

As a package creator I would like to be able to see how many people have downloaded my package.

KJK@GPower reports on the NI Forums (link unavailable without tech preview, but posting here because largely unrelated to tech preview and so perhaps not covered by non-disclosure?) that: "I know that the GCentral will be the place to go for finding reuse code what I'm not sure about is if there will be an active forum where [users] can get help and support from the G-Community." So perhaps: As a user of GCentral, I (might, if I were KJK@GPower, or the person they responded to) want to discuss using a package with the creator of that package (and/or other users) via a discussion page or forum system.

Relating to this, as a developer who might use open source code, I would like to be able to avoid installing (potentially obscure) test frameworks and similar to test code that I for whatever reason (author, company, etc) implicitly trust. I suspect this has a lot more to do with the packaging chosen though, and may not be easily manipulated by GCentral...